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Censys Technologies Corporation, a high-tech startup firm in Embry-Riddle’s John Mica Engineering and Aerospace Innovation Complex (MicaPlex), has added seven jobs over the past year, and it also recently achieved an important milestone in the development of unmanned aerial systems (UAS) technology.

The Routledge Companion to Air Transport Management brings together aviation scholars recognized as leaders in their respective areas from across the globe. Building upon research into U.S. and international airline operations, Dr. Dawna Rhoades authors the chapter “Airline Service Quality and the Consumer Experience,” and Dr. Blaise Waguespack authors the chapter “Airline Marketing.”
The book provides a unique series of chapters on air transport issues with the airline and airport industries, as well as the challenges facing managers in those respective fields. Within the handbook’s 25 chapters, it provides a unique repository of current knowledge and critical debate covering key sectors of the air transport industry to provide a definitive, trustworthy resource that is both vital and new to researchers, scholars and students of air transport management.
Learn more about the Routledge Companion to Air Transport Management.

Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University is proud to announce the Prescott Campus' new School of Business. The official unveiling of the school took place at a launch party on Feb. 1 attended by campus and community members, followed by a visit from University President Dr. P. Barry Butler on Feb. 9.

Finding an aircraft wing, machine guns, cannon balls, shackles, a cock pit door and other artifacts from a crashed Tuskegee Airman’s aircraft in the cold waters of Lake Huron and a wrecked slave ship near Key Largo buried on the ocean floor may not sound as glamorous as treasure hunting for gold or silver.

On the back of Dr. Jason Aufdenberg’s long-tail cargo bicycle is everything he needs if he breaks down, experiences heavy rain or other unexpected events. From a pump, tubes, patches, first-aid kit and ponchos, the “trunk,” as he calls it, on his hybrid mountain and road bike can even hold four bags of groceries.

Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University’s Worldwide Campus will offer a free, two-week online class focusing on aircraft maintenance, inspections, safe and efficient integration of daily operations and how to effectively manage global challenges facing the industry.
Scheduled to run from Feb. 26 to March 11, the Aviation Maintenance Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) will be taught by Embry-Riddle faculty as well as experts from the aviation industry and is open to the public.
“As the industry changes and adapts to new environments, we have to educate ourselves on how to successfully navigate those challenges, to make the most out of potential opportunities,” said Dr. Bettina Mrusek, lead faculty for the Aviation Maintenance MOOC. “Our students will get a real-world look at the industry, from multiple perspectives. We are not only focused on the maintenance technician, but also on those supervising and leading them.”
In addition to bachelor’s and master’s degrees in Aviation Maintenance offered through Embry-Riddle Worldwide, the university also offers a bachelor’s degree in Aviation Maintenance Science at its residential campus in Daytona Beach, Fla.
Registration is currently open at worldwide.erau.edu/massive-open-online-courses.

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Decide where and how you’ll change the world

Our residential campuses located in
Daytona Beach, Florida and
Prescott, Arizona offer you the choice of a spectacular beach setting or an amazing mountain community.
Embry-Riddle Online and our
Worldwide Campus operate a globally recognized learning system that leverages online and face-to-face instruction and a network of education facilities designed to support student advancement in the U.S. and abroad.

Daytona Beach, FL

The
Daytona Beach campus is located adjacent to an
international airport, a few miles from the beach, and a short drive to
Orlando and
Kennedy Space Center.

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Embry-Riddle graduates get where they want to be, landing jobs quickly and becoming leaders of industry. Your degree will get you in the door at some of the world's top employers, and the people you meet on campus will be there to help you along the way.

of Embry-Riddle graduates are
employed or are in
graduate school within a year of graduation.

Ethan Haddy,Security & Intelligence

It’s amazing the way the Eagle Operations Center is set up. It looks like something out of the movies. You wouldn’t expect to see it on a typical college campus. There’s a round table with all the TV monitors and a giant touch table.

Terry Hamm,Aeronautical Science

I am so thankful to have found a university that understands that soldiers have a job to do—a university that works with us to help us get our education.

Ashley Ross,Aerospace Engineering

I worked at NASA Ames Research Center on wind tunnel testing for Black Hawk Helicopters. I also helped work on the design for a B22. I got to fly the world's first vertical motion simulator-the simulator they use to help train astronauts how to fly the shuttle-and I got paid for all of it.

Bonny Simi,JetBlue

The quality of the students that we see coming out of ERAU is very high, thus when we interview students from the school, we tend to have a higher success rate than we do with many other schools. In fact almost 25% of our pilots have attended ERAU.

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Sky-High on Your First Day

Your classrooms: The lab, the cockpit, the simulator

At Embry-Riddle, you'll get
hands-on experience from the time you get to campus. Explore the skies. Develop a rocket launch system. Run conflict scenarios in a situation room. Design airlines, networks and fleets to maximize profitability.

16Consecutive years the
Daytona Beach undergraduate Aerospace Engineering program has been ranked
No. 1 nationally among schools where a master's is the highest degree

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Connections

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Though Embry-Riddle students come from all
50 states and
125 countries around the world, there is one trait they all share;
a determination to succeed. The bonds our students develop in the classrooms and residence halls last a lifetime and our
Alumni Association works to connect alumni with one another and with
hundreds of employers around the globe.

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Heights

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As the world’s largest and most
respected university specializing in
aviation and aerospace, Embry-Riddle has been at the forefront of
ground-breaking aeronautical milestones since the early days of flight. With nearly 129,000 graduates around the
globe, Embry-Riddle is not only
leading the future, it is
changing it.

The Embry-Riddle Company is founded by T. Higbee Embry and John Paul Riddle at Cincinnati’s Lunken Airport on Dec. 17 – exactly 22 years to the day after the Wright brothers’ famed flight at Kitty Hawk.

The Embry-Riddle Flying School, which opened in spring 1926, gains attention in 1927 when the school trains student Frank Shelton to fly solo in only 5 hours, 34 minutes – believed to be the shortest amount of time at that point.

Cincinnati becomes one of the nation’s first cities with direct Airmail service. The Embry-Riddle Company wins the contract because it had "gained a name for itself through the industry, the quality of its flying school, and the high tone of operations at Lunken Airport," according to the Cincinnati Enquirer.

After thorough examination by the Aeronautics Branch of the U.S. Department of Commerce, Embry-Riddle’s Flying School becomes one of the first five schools in the country to receive an “Approved School Certificate” under the Air Commerce Act.

The U.S. government selects the now
Miami-based Embry-Riddle Company to train pilots for the U.S. Army Air Corps, the predecessor to the U.S. Air Force. By the height of WWII, Embry-Riddle is the largest privately operated flight school in the world.

In the post-war years, the Riddle Aeronautical Institute continues to train pilots but struggles financially until the early 1960s, when increased demand for aviators causes the school to outgrow its Miami facilities.

The Embry-Riddle Aeronautical Institute, established as a non-profit corporation in 1959, moves from Miami to Daytona Beach, FL, in 1965, in what the school calls “Operation Bootstrap.”

Embry-Riddle achieves university status in 1970 and becomes Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University. That same year, the first residence center is established in Fort Rucker, AL, the beginning of Embry-Riddle’s Worldwide Campus. Later in the decade, the university opens a residential campus in Prescott, AZ.

With residential campuses now in Daytona Beach, FL, and Prescott, AZ, tens of thousands of online students, and 135+ Worldwide locations around the world, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University continues to train the world’s best pilots, plus some of the best engineers, mechanics, air traffic controllers, meteorologists, and many others.